Admonition and Exhortation: Sermon by the Rev. Presbytery of Edinburgh(1757 January 5)

MS 2000.30

Microfilm: M-1561

4 pp.

Printed sermon by the Reverend Presbytery of Edinburgh. In response to John Home’s tragedy, “Douglas,” admonishes the public about the “dangerous infection” of stage plays. Mentions a paper distributed in 1727 on the subject of stage productions and the 1737 act of George II which required the licensing of such productions.